Atif Mian

, is the John H. Laporte Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Finance at Princeton University, and Director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance at the Woodrow Wilson School. Prior to joining Princeton, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago Booth School of business. Professor Mian’s work studies the connections between finance and the macroeconomy. His latest book, , with Amir Sufi builds upon powerful new data to describe how debt precipitated the Great Recession. The book explains why debt continues to threaten the global economy, and what needs to be done to fix the financial system. House of Debt is by The New York Times, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and The Atlantic among others. Professor Mian’s research has appeared in top academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies and Journal of Financial Economics. He holds a bachelors degree in Mathematics with Computer Science and Ph.D. in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). More about Prof. Mian .